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A Cooperative Board Game that Explores Healing Herbs
Ages 4 to Adult • 1 to 4 Players • Made in the USA
When our son Rowan was little, we always wanted to play the nature and cooperative games with him. However, he always pulled out Candyland or Chutes & Ladders.
Then it hit us! Why not make a nature-based educational game featuring all the things kids love about those timeless board games? Also, why not make cooperative play even MORE fun than competitive play? Wildcraft was born!
Now, everyone can share their passion for plants with their kids and grandkids in a way that brings everyone together.
The Story
Grandma needs huckleberries to bake a pie. You and your cousins embark on an adventure up the mountain to collect berries as well as herbs she uses.
Will you all harvest the right plants to help with the trouble you run into along the way?
Will you make it back before nightfall?
The only way to win is by helping each other out.
Wildcraft! teaches you 25 important edible and medicinal plants and their uses in mostly first aid situations. (Wildcrafting is the harvesting of wild plants)
It also teaches team work, for you will rely on each other’s knowledge of plants and good fortune to make it to the Huckleberry Patch and safely back to Grandma’s.
Wildcraft! is a great introduction to the world of edible and medicinal herbs for children of ALL ages.
It’s a beautifully illustrated, nature based, cooperative game created in the tradition of the classic board games.
The Game
The Board
What do kids love most in board games?
Remember the slides, short cuts and ladders in Candyland or Chutes and Ladders? When you were a kid playing board games, weren’t these your favorite parts?
Well, Wildcraft! has waterfalls to slide down, logs to cross and deer trails to wander down.
We designed Wildcraft! in the tradition of the classic board games.
Naturalist and artist Beatriz Mendoza uses vibrant watercolors to create a colorful and playful world for Wildcraft! Click the photo to enlarge the Board.
The Plant Cards
26 plants are featured on 52 cards. The plant cards show the level of detail needed for identification in the field.
Plants include: Nettle, Yellow Dock, Wild Mustard, Huckberry, Dandelion, Comfrey, Cottonwood, Caledula, Echinacea, Chamomile, Field Mint, Wild Rose, St. Johnswort, Horsetail, Yarrow, Herb Robert, Elder, Burdock, Cattail, Coltsfoot, Valerian, Plantain, White Willow, Chickweed, Jewelweed, Catnip
The Trouble Cards
There are 52 trouble cards.
The icons on these cards match up with the icons on the Plant Cards. That’s how you know what plant can help with your trouble card. This way, even little kids can play!
The Other Pieces
Wildcraft! includes the following:
- 20×20 inch game board
- Instruction booklet
- 4 player pieces
- 52 plant cards
- 52 trouble cards
- 25 cooperative cards
- A turn spinner
The game also comes with a fun, downloadable story to enhance the player’s understanding of wildcrafting herbs!
The Benefits
Wildcraft! features storytelling and fosters imagination
Wildcraft! designer, Kimberly Gallagher, M.Ed. has a passion for storytelling. Not only is there a story surrounding the game concept, stories are also infused into the playing experience. You can chose to download a free storybook that goes with the game. When players get to a “rest space,” they can choose to read the accompanying story! The stories teach players about plants, safety, and sustainable and ethical harvesting.
Wildcraft! connects players with nature
Wildcraft! brings you through several ecosystems while you are going up the mountain. Plants on the board are positioned in the ecosystems they would naturally grow in. Therefore, players are learning about plants, where they grow, and what to use them for on several levels.
Wildcraft! fosters a connection to nature. Before you know it, you and your kids will be identifying plants in the park or yard… and you’ll find yourself saying, “Hey! That’s chickweed! I can eat that AND use it to heal a wound.”
Wildcraft! teaches about plants and their edible and medicinal uses
Well, this is obvious, but we wanted to mention that the game teaches plant uses on a food and first aid level. Chronic health issues are not addressed. How to properly use the plants, when to pick them, and what parts to use are not addressed in the game.
Wildcraft! keeps it simple and keeps it safe!
Wildcraft! is great for younger players
Since the game is “icon” driven, once your child has played once or twice, they can play on their own.
No reading is required. Older kids and adults will get A LOT from this game. However, even if your 5 year old isn’t reading, they are “patterning” on what the plants look like and what you can use them for. You can also make up simpler rules for the wee ones.
And NO prior knowledge of plants is needed.
Wildcraft! purchases go toward a good cause
A portion of the proceeds from this game benefit United Plant Savers.
Their mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come.
Wildcraft! is made with the earth in mind
- Made in the U.S.A.
- Game box and board are made with 100% recycled chipboard
- Printed with vegetable oil based inks
- Water based coating on paper, no varnish
- Forest Stewardship Council certified paper
- All material is 100% recyclable
The Reviews
Wildcraft! is great family fun. Gather up the kids, bring out the board game, and learn about medicinal and edible plants in the most fun way imaginable.
This is wonderfully cooperative game where everyone is a winner and everyone learns something about plants!
Wildcraft is a blast! Green cooperation, herbs, healing, eating and lots of fun.
If only I had this when I was growing up in London, I might have become a herbalist by now….
I love your herbal game! A youngin’ I played with took to the game like a duck in water. No reading of the rules really needed. He was bouncing all over the place finding the herbs which matched his troubles and so easily giving cooperation to others to help them move up the board or identify and give them needed herbs.
The herb drawings are wonderful – just enough detail to recognize – the uses for the troubles great with the variety of possibilities, the colors vibrant, the play cooperative, teaching, fun and suspenseful all wrapped up together in one fun time!!!
I found a game I love the best. My daughter and I play this more than any other board game in the house. Now she remembers more about herbs from our wilderness walks. At age six, she knows more binomial spelling than any school curriculum covers. She learned telling time from the way the moon moves, we both laugh at our “troubles” on the path and delight in our creativity as we use whatever herbs we gathered to heal each other. Everyone in our family says “Yes” to spending free time on An Herbal Adventure. Plus, concern for Grandma, the role-playing, and the visual beauty of the game spark our love of Art and family. After years spent playing and teaching cooperative games from the Findhorn community, I found a game I love the best.
The Bonuses
Outdoor Kids: Herbal First Aid for Summer, with Aviva Romm, M.D.
In this one hour video class, Dr. Aviva Romm covers six fun herbal activities you can share with your kids this summer, what to pack in your simple, summer herbal first aid kit, and when to use herbs and when to see the doctor. Simple herbal treatments for… bites and stings, boo-boo’s and ouchies, sunburn, poison ivy and allergies.
Be safe this summer…naturally.
Includes video and audio editions!
Aviva Romm, M.D., is a Yale-trained physician specializing in integrative medicine for women and children, a midwife, an herbalist, and an award winning author of seven books. Aviva was one of the first pioneers in natural birth and botanical medicine for gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatrics in the United States. She is also mom to four grown kids and a grandma.
One Full Issue of Herbal Roots Zine
Learn ALL about lemon balm in this FULL issue of Herbal Root zine. I said it above and I’ll say it again…this is the BEST herbal magazine on the planet. It’s for kids of ALL ages.
Lemon balm is used in lots of kid’s herbal remedies. It has a myriad of uses that you as a parent will want to know about. It’s easy to grow and learn about.
What better way to learn than to play, right? That’s why Wildcraft is so awesome. These issues of HRZ contains herbal lore, songs, poems, word scrambles, word searches, coloring pages, craft pages, mazes, herb journals, crossword puzzles and LOTS more. Your kids will have PLENTY to work on while Wildcraft arrives in the mail.
Herb Fairies: Book One Activity Pack
Herb Fairies, a Magical Tale of Plants & Their Remedies, is returning this Spring!
Get a head start with the “Book One Pack.” Herb Fairies, written by the creator of the Wildraft board game, is a complete herbal learning system for kids.
This bonus includes the entire Book One of Herb Fairies, Stellaria’s Big Find. After your kids read (or listen to YOU read) the story, they can work on the Magic Keepers Journal. There, they will draw chickweed, and write down what they learned in the story. In addition, we’re including 6 beautiful recipe cards, with recipes for chickweed grilled cheese sandwiches, chickweed pesto, chickweed spread, chickweed tincture, steamed chickweed and apple cider vinegar infused with chickweed!
Mentoring Kids and Nature
Connection, with Jon Young
Coyotes Guide to Connecting with Nature & What the Robin Knows author Jon Young takes you behind the scenes of Wildcraft! and LearningHerbs.
If you are interested in this game, chances are you are interested in learning how to connect your kids with nature.
Why are relationships with nature more important than information? What is Nature Deficit Disorder and does your child have it?
What is the number one secret to nature connection? It’s something that took Jon decades of teaching to discover.
In this insightful 60 minute audio interview, Jon covers how to discover your child’s passions and connect with them in nature.
Jon’s world acclaimed Art of Mentoring curriculum is the engine of LearningHerb’s teaching methodology. You get a first hand glimpse under the hood to not only see how and why we do what we do, but also how you can empower yourself to mentor others.
New Video! How to Make Herbal Root Beer with Your Kids
Root beer was originally made with healing herbs. Learn an “original recipe” using sassafras, sarsaparilla, burdock, dandelion, licorice and astragalus roots.
Wildcraft game creator Kimberly Gallagher is joined by kids in her kitchen to make this delicious and healthful drink. This is the super-simple / small batch / “add carbonated water” version, so your kids can enjoy their herbal concoction as soon as possible. Kimberly and the kids will also teach you about the healing herbs in the recipe. We include a recipe card print out.
Making homemade root beer is a fabulous way to learn about herbs with your kids.
NOTE: This new and exclusive video is almost complete. A private link to the video will be emailed to new Wildcraft owners within a week.
Total Bonus Value is WELL OVER $100!
All bonuses are digital files that are downloadable immediately after purchase.
Your Satisfaction Is Guaranteed
If you are not satisfied, we will refund your
money AND you can KEEP the game!
We are so absolutely sure you’ll love this game, that if you don’t, we’ll refund your money and you can KEEP the game and bonus items.
We are soooo proud of this product. Everyone who has played it, loves it.
Why do we make such a bold offer?
Over 55,000 copies of Wildcraft! have sold and
only 2 people have taken us up on this offer.
